The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-02-25

WnsN WILL Our EYES BE OPENED TO
Tins GREAT NATIONAL CALAMITY.

The year 1856 played sad havoc
with many prominent men of our
country.
Many Of them died without warning,
Lassing away apparently in the full
flush of life.
Others we're sick but comparative
ly short time. We turn to our files
aud are astonshed to find that most of
them died of spoplexy, of paralysis, of
nervous prostration, of malignant blood
numor, of Bright's disease, of heart
disease, of kidney disease, of rheuma-
tism or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our prom
inent men die of these disorders ANY
journalist who watches the telegraph
reports, will be astonished at the num-
ber OF prominent victims of these dis
orders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect that
the disease that carried off SO many
prominent men in 1886, are really one
disease, taking different names accord
ing to the location of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes, it
becomes the nine days talk of the
sporting world, and yet thousands of
ordinary horses are dying every day,
their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment.
so it is with individuals. The cause
of death of prominent men creates
comment, especially when it can be
shown that one unsupported disease
carries off most of them, and yet "vast
numbers of ordinary men and women
die before their time every year from
the same cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free
from uric acid, that heart disease, pa
ralysis, nervous prostration, pneumo-
MIA, rheumatism, and many cases of
consumption, would never be known.
This uric acid, we are told, is the waste
Of the system, and it is the duty of the
kidneys to remove this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
kidney, acid is kept out of the blood,
and these sudden and universal dis
eases caused by uric acid will, in a
large measure disappear.
But how shall thus be done? 1t is
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause,
that way should be known to the pub
tic. We believe that Warmers safe
cure, of which so much has been writ
ten, and so much talked of by the pub.
tic generally, is now recognized by i'm
partial physicians and the public as the
one specific for such diseases.
Because public attention has been
directed to this great remedy by means
of advertising, some persons have not
believed in the remedy. We cannot
see how Mr.. Warner could Immediately
benefit the public in any other way,
and his valuable specific should not be
condemned because some nostrums
have come before the public in the
same way, any more than that all doc
tors should be condemned because 30
many of them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side, of that great
remedy, and public opinion thus based
1pon an actual experience, has all the
weight and Importance of absolute
truth.
At this time of the year, the uric
acid in the blood invites pneumonia
and rheumatism, and there is not man
who does not dread these monsters of
disease; but he need have no fear of
them We are told, if he rid the blood of
the uric acid cause.
These words are strong, and may
sound like an advertisement, and be re.
jected as such by uuthinking people,
but we believe they are the truth, and
as such should be spoken by every
truth-loving newspaper.